Caribou Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in Idaho, United States.The mountains are in the Caribou National Forest in Bonneville and Caribou counties, near the Wyoming border.
Named for Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in 1860. Fairchild discovered gold in this area of present-day eastern Idaho two years later.[1]
The highest point of the range is 9,803-foot Caribou Mountain.[2]